Listing Text

House. C17 and C18 with early C19 alterations and late C19 additions. Coursed
rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins. Slate roofs with moulded stone
copings to gables, plus ridge finials, and brick gable end stack to right and stone
rear wall stack to left. Two storey and attics and roughly L-plan. Four first floor
windows to main front plus gabled crosswing to left housing the staircase. Entrance
to left return; 6 fielded panel door to central chamfered doorcase flanked by 12 pane
sashes in plain surrounds with projecting sills, to ground and first floor, and
central Venetian style window in the gable without side mullions. Main front; deep
plinth, advanced bay has large semi-circular headed staircase window with Gothick
glazing and fluted keystone at half landing level and small Venetian style window,
similar to that to left return, lighting the attics, now obscured by ivy. To right,
two large canted bay windows with 12 pane sashes to each side, projecting sills,
cornices and shallow hipped roofs. Above four irregularly spaced 12 pane sashes in
plain raised surrounds with projecting sills. Flush parapets with flat copings,
partly obscuring central gabled dormer. Right return of advanced bay has blocked C17
recessed and chamfered single light windows. Rear wing to left has two 12 pane
sashes flanking blocked C17 door to ground floor, two C20 windows above, and stone
coped gable with moulded kneeler and brick end stack to left. Rear of main range has
late C19 brick additions. Interior has grand late C17 open well staircase with
turned balusters, panelled newels with ball finials and moulded handrail. Early C18
raised and fielded panelled doors with original hinges to most rooms, those from the
entrance hall into rear wing and main rooms set in chamfered stone doorcases.
Central room has early C19 segmental headed niche and segment headed double doors
through to further room which has mutilated remains of two cruck trusses. Blocked
C17 windows to original rear wall of house. Double purlin roof with arched braces.

Listing NGR: SK4448858043

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